Improvement in crushing and stripping sugar-cane



MANCY & BRANGER.

Sugar Cane Crusher and Stripper.

No. 38,114. Patented April 7. 1863.

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L. MANOY AND G. BRANGER, OF ST. MORGAN, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CRUSHING AND STRIPPING SUGAR-CANE.

fipecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,114, dated April 7, 1563.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, L. MANOY and O. BRANGER, both of St. Morgan, in the county of Madison and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Crushing Sugar-Cane and Stripping the Leaves therefrom; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side View of our invention; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of the same; Fig. 3, a side View of a portion of one of the caneguides.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of pressure-rollers combined and arranged with rotary knives and guides and an endless discharging-apron in such a manner that the leaves will be cut from the cane as the latter is fed to and between the pressurerollers, and the crushed cane discharged from the machine directly into a cart or wagon.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we will proceed to describe it.

A represents a box, which is composed of two parallel side pieces, a a, connected by suitable end pieces, 11; and B B are two uprights, which are attached one to each side piece a, and are provided each with a vertical slot, '11, to receive the journals 0 of a pressure-roller, G. On the journals 0 of this roller 0 there are placed bearings d, on which screws 6 bear, said screws passing through nuts f on the upper ends of the uprights. Directly below the roller 0 there are placed two rollers, D D, which are smaller in diameter than the roller 0. The rollers D D are placed side by side, and the rollers D D and upper roller, 0, are connected by gear-wheels, one of which, is shown in Fig. 2. These three rollers O D D are for the purpose of crushing the cane and expressing the juice therefrom, and the latter may be subjected to a greater or less pressure by adjusting or turning the nuts f.

E represents an inclined table, which is retained or held in proper position by arms h h, connected to the uprights B B. The lower edge of this table E is in line with the bite of the rollers G D D, and the back part of the table is slotted longitudinally, as'shown at 13 in Fig. 2. These slots are for the purpose of allowing knives j to rotate through the back part of the table. These knives are placed 011 a shaft, F, the bearings of which are at the sides of the table in arms k k, which extend some distance back of the table, and-have a notched bar, G, attached to them. To the upper surface of the table E, just in front of the slots i, there is secured another notched bar, H, which is precisely like G, the notches of the two bars being in line with each other. The construction of these bars will be fully understood by referring toFig. 3, the notches being indicated by a On one end of the roller D there are placed two pulleys, Z Z, from one of which, Z, motion is communicated to the knife-shaft F by a belt, in. The driving power is applied to this roller D.

To each side piece, a, of the box A there is attached a bar, a, between the outer ends of which there isplaced a roller, 0, over which and a similar roller, 1), at the inner parts of said bars, an endless apron, 1, passes. This apron may be constructed of any suitable cloth or flexible fabric, and has transverse slats 9 attached to its external surface. This apron is moved in the direction indicated by the arrows by means of a belt, T, which passes around the pulley Z and a pulley, s, on one end of the outer apron-roller, 0. The bars a u, and consequently the apron I, are retained in an inclined position by arms t 1, connected. to the uprights B B.

The operation is as follows: The operator stands at the end of the table E and places the cane in the notches a of the bars G H, and shoves the former along toward the rollers O D D, the knives j cutting the leaves from the cane. Theleaves, it will be understood, branch from opposite sides of the cane, and the operator holds or adjusts the latter in such a position that the leaves will be about parallel with the table, so that the knives may perform. their work perfectly. The cane thus stripped of its leaves passes between the pressure-rollers, and is crushed, the crushed cane passing from between the rollers upon the endless apron I, which carries it up suiiiciently high to admit of its being discharged into a wagon table E and inclined endless apron I in inclined positionsto wit, by nieansof the arms h h t t, connected to the uprights BB, as set forthin combination with the guide-bars G H, notched as shown, rotary knives j, table E, and pressurerollers O D D, all arranged for joint operation, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

L. MANOY. O. BRANGER.

WVitnesses: I

M. GINZEL, M. MENZI. 

